Hismaic

Hismaic (Arabic: حسمائية) is a variety of the Ancient North Arabian script and the language most commonly expressed in it.

[citation needed] Hismaic inscriptions are attested in the Ḥismā region [ar] of Northwest Arabia, dating to the centuries around and immediately following the start of the Common Era.

Hismaic has undergone the merger of Proto-Semitic s¹ + s³, the same as all Arabic varieties and Dadanitic.

There are clear instances of d being used for /ḏ/ in the variant spellings of the divine name Ḏū l-S2arā as ds2r or ds2ry – as against classical ḏs2r or ḏs2ry, although these are probably Aramaicisms, under Nabataean influence.

[1] Perhaps the most salient distinction between Safaitic and Hismaic is the attestation of the definite articles h-, hn-, ʾ-, and ʾl- in the former.